how to feed a new Achilles Tang

[tubastrea]

I've just bought a pretty small Achilles and apparently he is not interested in nothing rather than frozen Artemia salina
do you have any experience/suggestion on what else should I try?

 

[ducati335i]

I've just bought a pretty small Achilles and apparently he is not interested in nothing rather than frozen Artemia salina
do you have any experience/suggestion on what else should I try?

nori, will eat eat for sure, tie it to something,,, he will eat it

 

[NYreefNoob]

i usually get them on spirula brine shrimp, and mysis, but they need algea to eat, this is a very hard fish and truelly requires a large system thats very well established, prone to ich also and needs alot of flow

 

[tubastrea]

nori, will eat eat for sure, tie it to something,,, he will eat it

this is what I would expect but surprisingly he doesn't pick up at Nori.
I believe because it is a new taste and shape he is not yet used to.
currently is just eating Artemia but he cannot thrive just with them.
I'm looking for something similar he had in nature, just to overcome the inital adaptation phase.....

 

[Waleedwale1]

Garlic always worked for me. Put the seaweed in a cup with a bit of water and a lot of garlic juice, it should hopefully yield better results. Try the same with mysis/brine.

 

[dacaptain78]

You can try fresh clams. I also had success with nori on a clip. Once the tang ate the nori I would fold mysis, rods reef food, or other frozen food into the nori sheet and clip it in. Sooner or later the fish would start eating the frozen food.

 

[Zig]

i give mine a whole mixture of everything including dry foods and now hell eat anything

 

[Daniel Gonzales]

Garlic always worked for me. Put the seaweed in a cup with a bit of water and a lot of garlic juice, it should hopefully yield better results. Try the same with mysis/brine.

Garlic is a good choice.

 

[charliethetuna88]

I gave mine nori,now he eat mysis

 

[ca1ore]

It can take a bit of time to wean these fish onto a varied diet. I have had a medium AT in QT for about a month (bought at Max Reefs), and have had a tough time getting it to accept anything other than spirulina brine. No interest in nori, and Mysis is hit or miss - though more hit as time passes. I generally don't have a lot of luck getting Tangs to eat nori in QT, but as soon as they get into the display and see all the other fish going crazy over the clip, they get the idea very quickly.

 

[tubastrea]

It can take a bit of time to wean these fish onto a varied diet. I have had a medium AT in QT for about a month (bought at Max Reefs), and have had a tough time getting it to accept anything other than spirulina brine. No interest in nori, and Mysis is hit or miss - though more hit as time passes. I generally don't have a lot of luck getting Tangs to eat nori in QT, but as soon as they get into the display and see all the other fish going crazy over the clip, they get the idea very quickly.

Situation improved very much during the past two days.
As you mentioned, he has now seen the other eating Nori and strted as well.
I have good hopes he will survive.
let's see...